Her name is Jasmine Bashara, but she hates it. Everyone calls her Jazz. She’s a Saudi National who has grown up since the age of seven in Artemis, the first city on the Moon. And there Jazz has built a thriving business as a smuggler with Kelvin Otieno, her partner who works in Kenya for the...
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Oslo, August 2015. An old woman named Turid chances across an entry in an auctioneer’s booklet. It’s a bracelet with a minimum bid of one hundred thousand kroner, or about $10,000 today. “It is forty-eight years since she last saw her bracelet.” So Turid digs out the old...
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She ran a modest haberdashery shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Fredericka Mandelbaum, an “upright widow, philanthropic synagogue-goer, [and] doting mother of four,” was also the boss of the country’s most notorious crime syndicate. And when Pinkerton detectives finally staged a...
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A deranged serial killer haunts the precincts of Tudor London in Revelation, the fourth entry in C. J. Sansom’s series of Matthew Shardlake mysteries. And a fellow barrister at Lincoln’s Inn who is Matthew’s best friend is the first victim to come to light. Enraged, Matthew...
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Sergeant John Rossett is “a good man just doing a bad job.” A war hero, he returned to his prewar job as a cop in London only to be pressed into service in a distasteful job. The Nazis rule Britain, and they’ve forced him to work as a “Jew-catcher” in the Office of...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.